I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
The rules? Never mind.
The DNC’s credentials committee made it official yesterday: The two states that broke the rules on the nomination calendar and caused delegate count turmoil until days before the primaries ended, Florida and Michigan, will get full seating and full votes at this week’s convention.
Michigan Senator Carl Levin, Public Enemy Number One of the Iowa caucuses, declared victory. “We had the guts to take the system on, and we made progress this year,” he said. Levin has made it clear that in his mind, “reform” means “Iowa and New Hampshire don’t go first anymore.”
The DNC is organizing a calender reform commission headed by Michigan’s Debbie Dingell, another caucus hater. “There’s a principle at stake, and we are committed to that principle,” said Dingell.
Unnamed Democratic officials said that Michigan and Florida had, in fact, been punished, noting that the candidates didn’t campaign in those states and that the two states got lousy hotels in Denver.
(John Deeth is a Fellow with our sister site, Iowa Independent.)
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